Something About the Beatles
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Something About the Beatles
Hosted by award-winning author Robert Rodriguez, Something About The Beatles is an intelligent but entertaining examination of The Beatles' music and career. Smart, funny and surprising - just like the Fab Four.
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311: Dear Beatle People with Sara Schmidt and Allison Bumsted
311: Dear Beatle People with Sara Schmidt and Allison Bumsted Most Beatles fans are generally familiar with the story of their UK fan club, managed by...
310: The Beatles' Legacy with Sean Murphy
Why are we still talking about these guys? Does a band that stopped recording together over half a century ago have any relevance in the 21st century?...
309: Some Fun Tonight with Chuck Gunderson
We are now sixty years on from the crest of The Beatles' touring years, if you figure the August 15, 1965 Shea Stadium show that kicked off their seco...
SATB Special: Power To WHAT People? - Canceling Lennon in 2025 with Candy Leonard
This special episode is, in effect, a part two of episode 308 (The Politics of Beatles), again with Candy Leonard, as an examination of the decision...
SATB Special: Ribbons of Rust Book Launch with John Leckie, Sibbie O'Sullivan and Richard Mills
Ribbons of Rust: The Beatles' Recording History in Context is this first installment of a multi-volume series, building out the history of everything...
308: The Politics of Beatles with Candy Leonard
In 2014, sociologist Candy Leonard published Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade The World. It was a groundbreaking work, representing a...
307: Borrowed Time with Alan G. Parker
Director Alan G. Parker's newest film is a personal expression of gratitude toward John Lennon for being a figure that helped him through some difficu...
306: Beatles Olympiad - Glyn Johns' Get Back with Gary Wenstrup
In late May 1969, producer Glyn Johns turned in a draft album, culled from hours of tape recorded in January 1969 during the Get Back/Let It Be sessio...
305: Contentious Credits
In recent years, the quality of Beatles scholarship has risen considerably, and the old days of accepting and repeating any old data (even coming from...
304: Badfinger's Head First with Bob Jackson
Beatle proteges Badfinger were an Apple band that simultaneously produced some of the finest pop/rock of their era while beset by management malfeasan...
303: John and Paul - A Love Story in Songs with Ian Leslie
My guest has produced one of those rare books in The Beatles' literary canon not penned by an insider (or by someone named Lewisohn) that has arrived...
SATB SPECIAL: ONE TO ONE with Gary Wenstrup
On April 10, 2025, the film One To One: John and Yoko was released in US theaters. Gary Wenstrup (SATB Olympiad series) attended a screening, and in t...
302: TeenSet and Rock Fan Magazines with Allison Bumsted
An important part of understanding both rock history generally and The Beatles' history specifically is contained in a study of the fan magazines prod...
301: The Beatles' Bag of Tricks Volume 2 with Jack Petruzzelli and Cameron Greider
Returning guests Cameron Greider and Jack Petruzzelli (both of the RPM-School.com) are on hand to discuss more of what The Beatles used in their songc...
300: Something About The Beatles' 300th Episode
YOU the loyal listeners decided what your fave moments of the show were, and based on your input, SATB runs down moments from the past 7+ years, featu...
299: Ringo's Beats and Threads with Gary Astridge
For most whose lives were changed by The Beatles, it can only remain a dream that they would one day meet one, much less work alongside one and develo...
SATB Extra: Magical Mystery Camp 2025
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296: The Beatles and Fandom with Richard Mills
Beatles scholar Richard Mills is the author of The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Fandom (published by Bloomsbury). We discuss the uni...
298: May the Second - The Found Weekend with May Pang
Returning guest May Pang has had a busy couple of years, both with the presentation of her story in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost Weekend: A Lov...
297: All I Want Is The Truth with David Whelan and Robert Rosen
2024 winds down with the merging of two guests that have appeared on the show this year, in a spirited discussion of David Whelan's investigation into...
FEED DROP: Crime Capsule
Staten Island is known as the mystifying borough, and it is home to numerous ghosts and eerie tales. The Alice Austin House was once home to a pioneer...
295: Beatles '64 with David Tedeschi and Margaret Bodde
Many of you have by now seen the new doc, re-presenting the February 1964 footage of The Beatles' two-week jaunt in NYC, Washington and Miami, shot by...
294: White Album Olympiad with Gary Wenstrup
The Olympiad series picks up again, with music scholar Gary Wenstrup on board, picking up where we left off at episode 276, the Filmtrack Olympiad.
293: Macca's 80s with Glenn Greenberg
Viewed at one level, Paul's 1980's career was bookended by the album triumphs of Tug of War and Flowers In The Dirt. But that would be to overlook the...
292: The Comedy of The Beatles with Jeff Martin
An essential component of The Beatles' appeal was their sense of humour, showcased not only in their two feature films (A Hard Day's Night, Help!) but...
291: December 8, 1980 with David Whelan
In the 44 years since John Lennon's death, the trauma of that night is still as raw, so much so that, for most people, the facts of what went down are...
290: "Hey Jude" Reconstructed
In 2023, I hosted writer James Campion with Jeff Martin for a discussion of The Beatles' 1968 mega-hit and Apple Records debut. This time, we're drill...
289: A Hard Day's Night At 60
With The Beatles' film debut turning 60 this summer, the time was right for a deep dive into the cultural and cinematic significance of it all. Joinin...
288: Band On The Run (Hand Clapping) with Luca Perasi
My guest, Luca Perasi, first appeared on the show in 2023 (262). He is the McCartney historian based in Italy, whose previous works include Paul McCar...
287: The Historian and Get Back with Erin Weber
In the years since Peter Jackson's epic re-imagining of the January 1969 saga landed, SATb has examined it through a number of angles: from Brits - wo...
286: Nowhere Man '24 with Robert Rosen
In this conversation, my returning guest (see episodes 189 - 245 - 266) discusses his recent visit to Spain, where a belated Beatlemania is in full sw...
285: Sixty Years Ago in America with Lee Abrams, Dennis Diken, and Elliot Easton
As part of the ongoing campaign in 2024 to look back at 1964, we present another conversation with first-gen fans, this time focusing on the Capitol i...
284: Sixty Years On with Ivor Davis
Returning guest (episodes 130 and 174) Ivor Davis is a British journalist who, in 1964, went on tour with The Beatles for the Daily Express, covering...
283: Giles on Trial - The Reissues Critiqued with John Leckie and Jerry Hammack
Beginning with the 2017 Sgt. Pepper 50th anniversary release, a series of deluxe reissues (The Beatles, Abbey Road, Let It Be, Revolver, 1962-1966, 19...
We Didn't Start The Fire - British Beatlemania with Mark Lewisohn (Part I)
YEAH YEAH YEAH, we’ve been waiting 88 episode for this and it’s finally here!! In the 60s, The Beatles’ rise to fame would change the landscape of pop...
282: The Women’s Revolution (Or: The Beatles’ Effect)
My guests are three very special ladies whom have all appeared on the show before, but this time, all three have memoirs out. Debbie Gendler was the f...
281: The Beatles and The Cars with Elliot Easton
Of the 73 million Americans who viewed The Beatles’ live debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, we know with absolute certainty that a high p...
280: All You Need is the Love You Make with Steven Gaines
As the first insider Beatles tell-all (not counting Francie Schwartz’s Body Count – because why would I) – 1983’s The Love You Make, a collaboration b...
279: The Mal Evans Project Part One with Ken Womack
At last: the SATB conversation with the man who brought The Beatles’ road manager’s long missing manuscript to press. Living The Beatles Legend is the...
278: An Hour With Pattie Boyd
Today is her 80th birthday, and given the attention being brought by the auction of some personal items through Christie's (see https://onlineonly.chr...